Scapa Flow
Patricia Meehan, Malcolm Brown
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
Scapa Flow in the Orkneys would be the forbidding destination for many thousands of service personnel and civilians in both World Wars and the location of dramatic incidents such as the loss of the Hampshire with Kitchener on board in 1916, the scuttling of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919 and the sinking of the Royal Oak at anchor by U-boat U-47 at the beginning of the Second World War. It was a vital start-point for both naval wars and these memories capture all the suffering, loss and glory experienced by those who were there.
Kundenbewertungen
1919, anchorage, marines, military history, No World Outside the Ship, St Ninian, Second World War, explosion, Hands Coal Ship, Battle of Jutland, World War One, 1916, 1917, Jellicoes, Scotland, soldiers, Stromness, battleship, Royal Navy, local history, City of Ships, Yesnaby, Ness Battery, Jutland, Kirkwall, Water Sound, Orkneyitis, Lord Kitchener, Hampshire, WWI, World War I, guarding the fleet, Orkney Islands, Pentland Firth, Orkney barrage, Scapa Flow, Churchill Barrier, base, Libertymen, First World War, Old Man of Hoy, Vanguard, German High Seas Fleet, sailors, Royal Oak|U-47